Price Rigidity: Microeconomic Evidence and Macroeconomic Implications

Price Rigidity: Microeconomic Evidence and Macroeconomic Implications (with Emi Nakamura)

Annual Review of Economics, 5, 133-163, 2013.

Sluggish price adjustment is a leading explanation for the large effects of demand shocks on output and, in particular, the effects of monetary policy on output. But simple statistics such as the frequency of price change can be a misleading guide to the sluggishness of the aggregate price level. 

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